Here is the first video, as a teaser. I will put another up this week from another session using both a front and rear camera.




Edit:

She put some of the pics up already, here is a shot of the grille, and me chasing the Cheetah.



/Thread Hijack.

 

Grille looks great especially with the matte black wheels Not sure how much the Water Wetter does, but guaranteed opening up the grille makes a huge improvement in cooling efficiency.

 

Looks great, clean lines through Inde. What tires were you using?

Sounds great, looked very smooth

 

Thanks man! Hope to see you at Bondurant/Main end of this month!

Tires are 275/40/18 NT01s

 

Finally got the vid to load using FireFox....IE wouldn't display it on my laptop. Nice driving Drew. Just keeping him in view is an accomplishment with that kind of weight difference and the same hp!

 

Drew your car looks terrific. Please confirm the links below are the items you ordered. Now that you have this grill is there any reason to buy the Roush for permanent installation? Were there any other pieces needed?

http://www.americanmuscle.com/black-...ille-2010.html

VARIOUS MFR Part # FO1210105 {#AR3Z8419AA}
GT; Grille Surround Panel; Grille molding: Which one, there are three?

 

Thanks Rick! Those are the right parts. Make sure you only order the upper grille and not the combo.

The grille isn't completely straight in the shell on my car, but I spent about 3 mins installing it. Take more time on yours and it will be perfect.

On RockAuto, there are a couple options for that surround, I ordered the "Regular Inventory" one. It only clips in at the sides, then the grille itself has a couple long tabs that engage the factory tab-locks on the fascia.

 

I think I saw it mentioned on facebook, but can you get a bit more rear bar on the car, Drew?

I hope I can get to the mondo course (then I'm also due out at Inde the week after, will run the 275/35/19 conti slicks). I'm just waiting on having the car at this point.

 

Ah I see...I will keep my fingers crossed that they can at least get your car back together.

Yeah, swaybar is on the "middle" setting, I can make it a little stiffer and see how that goes at Mondo.

 

I know this is total thread hijack, but what bar are you using?

I'm surprised that most cars I look at have a soft/small bar or soft settings, and I'm certain I have mine about 20% firmer than the stock BBP bar (middle setting eibach adjustable). I just noticed some of the tighter turns at inde looked like push, but it was hard to tell from the video lens angle. I can't wait to get my car out there, as the last time I went, my best was a 2:15 in an Audi S4 that pushed, pushed, pushed all over the place.

 

Stranoparts adjustable. The car was uncomfortably loose w/ a square tire setup and stock rear bar. The push was minor and I could correct it with throttle.

 

Did you swap the bar at the track? If so was the push before or after the bar swap?

 

Yes, I swapped it at the track. Took about 2 hours with no instructions whatsoever and there was a bit of assembly involved

The car was very loose with the stock bar and square tire setup. There was only minimal push with the new rear bar, but it was fine to deal with remembering how to drive on the track again. I'm going to try it on the stiffer setting for the next event at end of this month.

 

Gotcha. Interesting info on the setups. I'm sure tire sizes and spring rates/heights come into play as well. Hopefully I can get to the mondo event so can get a comparison on setups going on the same track. Mine's very very neutral now, barely a hint of push (only seen at one turn at FIR-W) that's completely defeatable with the right pedal.

 

Where did I read that before? Good to hear it isn't "just me" and someone with your skills felt the same way. Will be very interested to hear how stiffening up the rear bar lessens the understeer.

 

On my 09 GT, I have the Steeda adjustable bar up front, had the small FRPP/Steeda/Eibach rear non-adjustable bar initially. Too much push, even with the front on full soft, so went with the Strano adjustable rear. Put it on full stiff, and found at MPH in May it was way too much in the rain -- very twitchy, oversteer nearly everywhere. In the dry it was nearly perfect, great trailing throttle/trail braking tuck in, but still a bit twitchy on throttle.
Went to the middle setting on my front Steeda bar, and now very stable all around.
I'm running a square 275/40-18 setup with this.

 

Wish you could make the Mustang Roundup end of this month. Not much rain in late September!

 

Just hoping that holds for the 8th/9th when NASA RM will be there! It'd suck to have two different rainouts for Nebraska. My wife will be taking the Audi S4, though, so maybe I'd just go out plowing around in it (don't think my nearly worn tires would handle any puddles at this point).

 

In transit...Boss Grill will arrive on Friday (09/23) via UPS.

Thanks,

Mike